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Veterans Are Finding Their Calling In Franchising

October 19th, 2014

It was 2002, and Andrew Wilson – then, an Army First Lieutenant – sat in a tent in Afghanistan, listening to the rumble of artillery. During that rare moment of downtime in a war zone, he decided to thumb through a Fortune magazine.

What this platoon leader found in its pages altered his post-military career trajectory, catapulting him into a highly profitable business venture: franchise ownership.